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Artificial Intelligence, the Environment and Resource Conflict: Emerging Challenges in Global Governance

Obasesam Okoi
As AI infrastructures expand rapidly across the globe, they bring into sharper focus the often-overlooked costs of digital innovation, particularly their entanglement with extractive economies and conflict dynamics.

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The Geopolitical Rivalry behind US Chip Export Controls and Its Implications for Canada’s Semiconductor Autonomy
Fred Cheung
Semiconductors constitute the backbone of the modern economy, but Canada relies heavily on imported chips. This context highlights the urgency for Ottawa to strengthen its domestic semiconductor ecosystem.
Semiconductors constitute the backbone of the modern economy, but Canada relies heavily on imported chips. This context highlights the urgency for Ottawa to strengthen its domestic semiconductor ecosystem.
HIV and the Volatile New World Order: From Declining Pandemic to One Crisis among Many
Warren Parker and Alan WhitesideIn the initial months of the second Trump administration, abrupt policy shifts placed the lives of millions of people living with HIV at risk and significantly weakened global HIV prevention efforts.
Technology at the Borders: Surveillance, Control and Resistance in EU Migration Governance
Fatmanur Delioglu
This paper examines the integration of advanced surveillance technologies in the European Union, the multiple uses of technologies, and their impact on migrants and migration management.
This paper examines the integration of advanced surveillance technologies in the European Union, the multiple uses of technologies, and their impact on migrants and migration management.